A faulty update to cybersecurity software knocked computers offline across industries and across the globe Friday.
The company responsible, CrowdStrike, announced the issue with its Falcon tool had been identified and a fix had been deployed.
Only computers running Microsoft Windows were affected, not those running Mac or Linux.
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